Bug 409194 - Wayland session shows only a black screen and the mouse pointer
Summary: Wayland session shows only a black screen and the mouse pointer
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 408634
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: wayland-generic (show other bugs)
Version: 5.16.1
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2019-06-26 04:38 UTC by tiagomariano
Modified: 2019-06-26 13:15 UTC (History)
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Description tiagomariano 2019-06-26 04:38:49 UTC
SUMMARY

When I try to start a Wayland session with nvidia card and proprietary driver, the system shows only a black screen and the mouse pointer.

$ nvidia-smi
Wed Jun 26 01:31:58 2019       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 430.26       Driver Version: 430.26       CUDA Version: 10.2     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 760     Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 N/A |                  N/A |
| 43%   36C    P8    N/A /  N/A |    554MiB /  1996MiB |     N/A      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0                    Not Supported                                       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

# cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset 
Y

$ echo $KWIN_DRM_USE_EGL_STREAMS
1



STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. select plasma with wayland session on SDDM
2. Log In
3. The system shows only a black screen and the mouse pointer.


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Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-06-26 13:15:37 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 408634 ***